#ethic

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä] ↗

— Väinö Linna

#killing #morality #war #life

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#ethics #law #shop #vegan #change

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ethics

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #ethics #morality #philosophy #spirituality

Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#motivational #respect #work-ethic #inspirational

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#imagination

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethics #even #expansive #intoxication #new

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— William Baldwin

#ethic #gift #giving #instilling #keeps

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#being #decisions #ethically #everybody #everything

To have a sense of education and ethics is important. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#ethics #important #sense